Plant Controller Job Elgin area,Illinois USA,Finance & Banking

Duties

Serving as the strategic financial leader for a manufacturing facility, including responsibility for all manufacturing plant financial analysis, plant control, and manufacturing plant operating performance support.

Generating, maintaining, and managing plant manufacturing financial budgets, including direct labor, material yields, operating outputs, and departmental spending.

Monitoring, reviewing, and analyzing weekly and period-end operational performance reports, including the preparation of comments, insights, and recommendations for corrective action.

Partnering with plant leadership and supporting departments to evaluate alternatives, propose corrective actions, while optimizing financial performance.

Managing the manufacturing plant financial month-end close process and assisting the manufacturing plant Director with monthly presentations of operating results to senior leadership.

Identifying opportunities to reduce costs across factory and product cost pools, including materials, labor, variable expenses, fixed expenses, capital, and inventory.

Verifying the accuracy of monthly inventory values and monitoring inventory adjustments.

Maintaining proper internal controls over factory assets, including raw materials, supplies, machine parts, inventory, and capital equipment.

Ensuring proper application of internal control standards, accounting practices, and accounting policies within the factory and supporting warehouses.

Providing guidance in the use and maintenance of ERP.

Supporting plant leadership with financial reporting, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost control, and operational decision-making.

Working cross-functionally with manufacturing, operations, supply chain, accounting, finance, and senior leadership to improve plant performance, cost visibility, and financial discipline.

Contributing to a team-oriented, collaborative, positive, and performance-driven plant environment.

Required

Critical

Note:

This is NOT a corporate accounting, general accounting, or traditional FP&A role. The successful candidate must have hands-on plant level (not corporate) accounting, financial analysis, cost control, inventory, budgeting, internal controls, and manufacturing plant-level financial support experience. Candidates who have not worked at the manufacturing plant level closely with manufacturing operations, plant leadership, production cost drivers, inventory, variances, and factory performance reporting are not the right fit for this role.

Candidates LOCAL to the Greater Chicago area will be given priority. Candidates from outside of the Greater Chicago area may be considered at a later date.

A Bachelor's degree in Financial Accounting, Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field is required.

Must have at least 2 years of experience working as a Plant Financial Controller, Assistant Plant Financial Controller, Manufacturing Financial Controller, Cost Accounting Manager, or in a closely related plant accounting or manufacturing finance role. This is an ABSOLUTE MUST.
Must have hands-on experience supporting financials in a manufacturing plant or production-oriented operating environment, including exposure to plant financial performance, cost drivers, manufacturing variances, labor, materials, inventory, departmental spending, and operating results.
Must have experience generating, maintaining, reviewing, or supporting manufacturing financial budgets, including direct labor, material yields, operating outputs, and departmental spending.
Must have experience reviewing plant financial operational performance reports and providing comments, recommendations, corrective actions, or financial insights to plant leadership or senior leadership.
Must have experience with financial month-end close responsibilities in a plant, manufacturing, operational accounting, or related financial environment.
Must have experience finding opportunities for cost reduction, cost control, and financial improvement across factory or product cost pools, including materials, labor, variable expenses, fixed expenses, capital, and inventory.
Must have experience working with inventory, inventory valuation, inventory adjustments, or inventory-related accounting controls.
Must have knowledge of internal controls, accounting policies, accounting practices, and proper control over factory or operational assets.
Must have experience working with Microsoft Office programs, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Must have strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to work with plant leadership, finance leadership, operations teams, and senior leadership.
Must have experience working with or around Good Manufacturing Practices, commonly referred to as GMP.

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